Exhibition opens in former home of William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his comet-spotting sibling Caroline From the garden of their Georgian townhouse in Bath in the late 18th century, a brother and sister made a series of extraordinary astronomical discoveries. A new art show in the house where the...
‘They’ll be finding bodies next year’: a renowned forensic scientist on Nepal’s ‘extreme challenges’
Prof Richard Bassed helped identify Boxing Day tsunami and victims of Australia’s catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires. ‘The randomness of this massive flood,’ he says. ‘That gets to you’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The bodies of some of those killed in the Nepal-Tibet flood...
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
As part of its push to promote AI-driven development, Microsoft and its hardware partners will begin selling high-end PCs with a clutter-free version of Windows later this year. However, instead of a separate Windows SKU, the machines will ship with pre-configured developer-friendly settings for Windows 11 Pro. Read Entire Article
AMD’s next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs could hit 3.4GHz, but they’re not coming anytime soon
According to a post on the AnandTech Forums by the generally reliable leaker Kepler_L2, internal AMD documentation points to a 3.1 to 3.4 GHz target frequency range for RDNA 5. The comment came in response to another forum member questioning whether the integrated graphics in AMD's next-generation APUs could clock......
Nvidia’s PAIR software turns idle home computers into a local AI cluster
Nvidia has introduced a new software tool for jumpstarting an explosion in local inferencing infrastructure. The Personal AI Router (PAIR) project is open-source software designed to link different computer systems, even different computer operating systems, into a custom AI cluster where chatbots, AI agents, and other compatible LLM applications share......
OpenAI agents turned an obscure German wiki into a message board where they could talk to each other
Reuters reports that a swarm of agents commandeered DseWiki, an obscure German-language programming wiki, and turned it into a bulletin board where they shared answers and evasion tactics with other AI agents. Despite some descriptions of the incident, this was not German Wikipedia; DseWiki merely allows collaborative editing in a......
Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers want to put off accuser’s recantation hearing
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky are asking to cancel a hearing that was scheduled to hear a claim that an accuser wants to recant allegations that Sandusky sexually abused him years ago
Trump names Adam Telle as acting Army secretary following the departure of Driscoll
President Donald Trump has named Adam Telle as the acting Army secretary following the departure of Dan Driscoll amid widespread reports of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
Teen and his mother charged in stabbing death of his girlfriend
Police in Pennsylvania say a teenager is charged in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend
Flock surveillance cameras become midterm campaign target as voters balk at tech companies’ power
Across the country and up and down the ballot, candidates from both parties are increasingly on the attack over Flock cameras